Odd that your turn signal housing is beige. Generally these are black from mid-1953 onwards. When you remove it, you can pull it apart and read the SWF date code stamped on it. I suspect it will be a 1952 or early 1953 date code and that that is a replacement part.

The nose on this car has also been replaced with a later one - the front turn signals are mounted lower than they originally were in 1955. Low-mounted turn signals started sometime in mid-1956.

What a lovely car and amazing journey, with the state of Spanish economy in 1955 I wonder who could afford such a costly car?

This also got me thinking, when one takes into account the German economy in 1955, there was a lot of choice in paint & upholstery colours available. I'm assuming most, if not all, of the suppliers would be German and it was only 7 years since the start of the Marshall plan (Spain had been excluded from this). Am I right in thinking that there was the greatest choice in paint colour, then fewer colours in the upholstery and only 2 in the headliner? I also wondered why the colours of the paint and upholstery were stated but the headliner is in code?

I have always assumed, particularily in the early years, the factory simply produced colour combinations that they thought would be suitable to simply sell from the showroom but have wondered how many were ordered with specific combinations and how long would one have had to wait for delivery?

I do have some mad questions bouncing around in my head and I'm sure all of these things have been covered before.

All pre-A chassis cars were delivered with 16" wheels. 3.25x16 wheels with 5.00x16 tires. These cars had the 90mm travel shocks and used larger wheels. The 356A chassis had the much longer shock travel and 15" wheels.

There's no hood script on pre-A cars. There was a PORSCHE script at front and rear. Front is on the nose, just below the hood latch. Your car would have 5 holes there were the pegs of the script get inserted. 1955 coupes could have had either aluminum scripts or gold-plated brass scripts.